My son is going to Moscow for Christmas to spend time with his girlfriend's family. They are quite wealthy. So sad, any kind of substance abuse is sad but this is just wrong.

It's tragic that alcoholism can drive people to ingest things like sanitizers, mouth wash and hairspray.

Very sad situation they are in there.

One of my good friends mother was an alcoholic who had been through several treatments and would buy other products instead of alcohol . She drank mouthwash , perfume , multiple products but the worst were gallon jugs of hair spray . She had to have the ambulance come get her mom who was near death . The laquer in the cheap hairspray had coated her insides and her lungs. My next door neighbor admitted her to the facility that he ran at the time. He said she was one of the sickest he had seen . She was in lock down there for a while , it was also a mental illness facility , and she was definitely mentally ill too. Her daughter had been the parent for the adult , it was a terrible situation . Her mother was so mean , the things that poor girl had to live through I felt so bad for her . No child should be in that kind of life. She would come and stay with us often to get away . None of the rest of the mothers family members would do a thing to help .

That's heartbreaking, Raven.

When I lived in the Arctic,the Inuit people/kids would often drink anti-freeze to get a buzz.

At the hospital, the serum for anti freeze poison back then (in the 80's) was Rye whiskey.

They would "huff" too....spray cans of anything had to be closely monitored in all of the stores...especially paints & glues.

Years ago when vacationing in Canada, I was surprised to see that the Hudson Bay Company kept the after shave lotion and few other products behind glass. I learned this was a defense against a few local alcoholics. Some were so bad off, they would grab the shave lotion off the shelf, open it and down the contents while in the store. Why bother with waiting to go through checkout.